European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 9, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 22 the stars and stripes thursday february 9,1989 world ski championships Maier nabs super g Vail Colo. A Austria s Ulrike  teammate Sigrid Wolf and West Ger Many s Michaela Gerg to win a closely contested women s super giant slalom wednesday at the world Alpine ski championships. Only four hundredths of a second separate the top three finishers. Maier first out of the Start House posted time of 1 minute 19.46 seconds that was t bettered by any of the remaining racers. Wolf starting fourth came close with a clock ing of 1 19.49 to take the Silver medal. Gerg with Start no. 14, came in at 1 19.50 to claim the Bronze. France s Carole Merle the undisputed Star of super a racing this season had the fastest inter mediate time about one third of the Way Dow the course. But Merle sailed too far off a jump and missed a Gate aborting her run. Merle has won All three super graces on the world cup circuit this season and already has clinched the discipline title with one event remaining. Switzerland s Maria Walliser Gold medallist inthe downhill Here on sunday finished fourth in 1 19.69. Regine Moese Plechner of West Ger Many and Michela Figini of Switzerland tied for fifth at 1 20.08. Maier 21, who has had four second place finishes in super a and giant slalom Over the past two world cup seasons but never a Victory gave Austria its first Gold medal of the world championships. Her Gold and wolfs Silver gave Austria three total medals compared to seven for the powerful and deep Swiss team. Gerg s Bronze also gave West Germany three medals. Nil from Page 17 second quickest pair of goals in All Star history. The record is 10 seconds set by the Campbell conference in the third period of the 1976 game in Philadelphia. Calgary s Joe Mullen scored two goals for the Campbel stars at 7 57 of the second and 6 53 of the third. His third Pend goal turned out to be the game Winner. The game featured a wide open third period in which the Campbell conference outscored Wales 4-2. Along with Mullen s second goal the Campbell stars got goals from Luc Robitaille at 12 18, Jimmy Carson at 14 35 landmark Messier at 17 14. Walt Poddubny at 4 40 and Mike Ridley at 9 35 scored for the Wales stars. The 14 goals set an All Star record breaking the Markot 13 established in 1984 when the Wales won 7-6 at new Jersey. The goals for the Campbell conference tied the most goals for one team Matching the Mark set by the Campbell stars in a 9-3 win at the Nassau coliseum. Gretzky accorded a standing ovation when he was introduced did t wait Long to give the Edmonton fans More to cheer about. Kerri who played on the same line with Gretzky Formost of his years in Edmonton took a pass from the los Angeles Center roared in and put a Backhander through the legs of Sean Burke. Gretzky then brought the Edmonton crowd to life again when he sc9red from in front off a Nice Cross ice pass in the offensive zone from Steve Duchesne. But the Wales conference rallied with a pair of goals of its own to tie the score after one period. First Cam Neely beat Grant Fuhr from in front at9 47 on a Power play for his first All Star goal. Then Poddubny scored his first at 10 38 on the re bound of a shot by Ridley. Fuhr was solid in the first period but he was also Lucky. He snuffed a breakaway shot by Mario Lemieux the nil s leading scorer in the fast two min utes. Shots by Pat Lafontaine and Paul Coffey also hit off the posts. The Campbell conference also missed a scoring Opportunity when a shot by Joe Mullen hit the Post in the last five minutes. The Wales took a 3-2 Lead at 3 16 of the second period on a goal by Glen Wesley. The Boston defense Hahn wins Safe title from Page 17 tufted from 10 to 15 Points with Mike Owens working inside in the Hawks half court game in Between their frequent fast break opportunities. The Hawks were leading 75-65 before they clicked off six straight fast Breaks. Johnson slammed it Home twice and Strong s Lay up gave the Hawks an Lead 87-65 with 6 12 left. Wei Brincken was Down 102-84 with three minute left before making a last ditch rally. Darryl Reeves hit a three Pointer and was fouled on the play by Walton who argued the Call until he was whistled for technical. Reeves hit the free throw and the technical to finish a five Point play that started a 13-3 Rall which closed the final margin to 105-95. Strong finished with 32 Points. He hit 12 out of 19shots, including 4 of 7 3-pointers. Hahn shot 62 per cent from the floor 49 of 79. Wei Brincken was 41-for-104 39.4 percent. Mike Owens the Safe map had 18 Points and 12 rebounds. Walton added 17points and 9 rebounds. Bradshaw had 12 Points and a game High 14 rebounds. Hixenbaugh finished with 10points and four assists. Hicks led everybody with 39 Points and 16 re Bounds. Kevin Graham scored 17 while Reeves and Douglas Moore had 14 each. Starting off hot has been routine this year for the Hawks. We be been doing the same thing All year Long Strong said. Sometimes we Start off slow sometimes we Start hot. I was up for this game though it was for the  i told the Guys that we need to come out and establish that we Are the better team right away Hahn coach Mel Mungin said of his charges who were still abit subdued after the game. It has t sunk in yet. The excitement will come later. We knew this was inevitable. They feel it inside now but we re going to celebrate later. It s soul night at the no club tonight and Well celebrate  we Brucken coach Thomas said he wanted a slower Tempo. They did t execute my game plan Thomas  wanted them to take 25-30 seconds to shoot but we got Good shots anyway. We just could t Stop their fast break. But i m very proud of my Guys. Runner up in Safe Ain t bad for a Rookie coach he the Hawks finished the 1988-89 season with a 26-2record 15-1 in the Csc regular season 5-1 in the Csc tournament and 6-0 at Safe. We Brucken the 1986usafe champions finished 16-13 8-8 in the Csc 4-3 in the Csc tourney and 4-2 Here. The Safe All tournament team includes Hicks Owens Hixenbaugh Strong Rob Martin and Daniel Terwilliger of Chicksands plus Melvin Kinnebrew an Darryl Ferguson of Aviano. Those eight were were invited to the Safe trial Camp by Safe coach Don Fellers. Also selected for the Camp Are Ramstein s Renford Green Russell Johnson of Zaragoza Bradshaw Walton Johnson Childs and major. They Are competing for stots on the team that will represent Safe in the All air Force trial Camp at Travis fab Calif. Feb. 19-24. Martin will miss the Camp because his Mother suffered a heart attack in Gary ind., tuesday. Martin said she was getting worse and he would Fly to Gar Friday. Hicks declined to participate in the Camp. Gooc Fen of be highest paid met new York a Dwight Gooden became the highest paid player in baseball this year and the High est paid player in the history of the new York mets when he agreed wednesday to a three year contract Worth $6.7 million. Gooden who made $1.4 million in 1988 after losing in arbitration will get a $500,000 signing Bonus $2.25 million this year $1.7 million in 1990 and $2.25 Mil lion in 1991, a source familiar with the negotiation told the associated press. Including a prorated share of the signing Bonus Gooden will receive $2,416,667 this season Topping the salary of Minnesota twins third baseman Gar Gaetti who will get $2.4 million. Aba from Page 17 a Campbell s Kevin Lowe right defends. Against Wales Mario Lemieux Man scored on a Quick shot from the Slot after a Pas from behind the goal line by Lafontaine. Mullen tied it for the Campbell conference with Backhander from the Edge of the lower left Circle at 7 57. But Yzerman and Leeman scored to put the the Campbells up 5-3.both goals came off Boston goalie Reggie Lemelin who replaced Burke in the nets mid Way through the second period. Jersey beat Seattle for the second time in a week with a25-11 second half run. Dennis Hopson scored 20 Points Buck William Sand Joe Barry Carroll each had 19 and Lester Conner had 13 Points 11 assists and 10 rebounds for the nets who snapped a three game losing Streak. New Jersey led 72-70 when it started the decisive spurt with seven straight Points As Hopson hit a 3 ppm Ter and Williams made four free throws. The after taking an 89-81 Lead into the fourth period the nets scored the first eight Points of the final period fora 97-81 advantage. Dale Ellis had 34 Points and Michael Cage 24 for Seattle. Bulls 118, hornets 93 Chicago Chicago routed Charlotte with a 21 -10rally in the final 7 03 of the third period with Michael Jordan scoring 14 of his 32 Points in that Span. The big spurt gave the bulls an 89-69 Lead going into the fourth Quarter and they went on to hand the Hor nets their 21st loss in 24 Road games. Charlotte was led by Kelly Tripucka who scored 27points but was held scoreless in the third Quarter after getting 22 in the first half. Jazz 96, heat 77 Salt Lake City Utah handed Miami its 21stloss in 22 Road games behind Karl Malone s 26 Points and John Stockton s 20. Grant Long and Rory Sparrow had 14 Points apiece or the heat which has lost eight of its last nine games Overall and owns the Aba s worst record at 5-39 i Uxmal a 25 i ,aft2 one period although Malone the Aba s second leading scorer with a 29.7 average had just three Points All from the foul line. The heat made Only five of 24 shots in the first period. Kings 114, spurs 99 Sacramento Calif. Sacramento broke a six game losing Streak by out rebounding san Antonio 67-51 Ricky Berry scored 23 Points including four 3-pointbaskets for Sacramento Lasalle Thompson and Rodney Mccray had 15 rebounds each for the Kings w,1lll�a�derson ?adu26 Points and Frank Brickowski for the spurs who have lost 15 of their last 17 Road